• Bad Days Are Part And Parcel Of Life

    This is a poem about a bad day (one out of many!) I had in Recruitment. Here goes the content: Bad days are part and parcel of life They can happen to anyone in the world And you never know when Yesterday was one such day For hours and hours I searched and searched For…

  • Poem Dedicated To My Father

    Dear Appa We may not speak all the time Or at least Not as much as Amma and I do, perhaps But I want you to know That you are not any less special Not even an iota Where do I even start? From buying me countless toys Even as I kept breaking them One…

  • Search, Find, Talk, Repeat

    This is a poem about the difficulties one faces in Recruitment for Investment Banking roles. Here is the content: Search, find, talk, repeat This is what Recruitment is all about, isn’t it? You couldn’t have been more wrong Especially when considering the world of Investment Banking It is a very small world You speak to…

  • Mother’s Day Special Poem

    Dear Amma, First of all Let me wish you A very Happy Mother’s Day How do I even begin? You’ve been there for me Right from day one From giving birth to me To raising me as a child Sending me to school Supporting me through my teens Which were frankly some of the most…

  • Open Letter To My Dear Mama

    This is an open letter. No, I don’t mean a letter with complaints addressed to the government and to be read by the public. This is an open letter to my dear uncle – my mother’s elder brother (and only sibling) Ashok; known affectionately as “Ashok Mama” – for his 60th birthday tomorrow. Without much…

  • Doing Recruitment Without Naukri.com

    A poem dedicated to my boss for expecting us to do Recruitment without Naukri.com. Here is the content: You want us to work hard We have been doing that For the last five years In case you haven’t noticed You want us to achieve results Again, we’ve been doing that Maybe not every quarter But…

  • See How Times Are Changing

    As the signal changes colour From red to green The guard waves a green flag And the Assistant Loco Pilot sounds the horn A deep and beautiful melody Which seems to arise Right from the heart And pulls you into a trance Such that, the only thing you want to hear Is this intoxicating horn…

  • Remembering Kalyani Patti

    All of us suffer a loss of a loved one at some stage or the other. After all, we are all mortals and death is inevitable. However, some deaths can affect us more than others; depending on the closeness of the relationship, age of the person, circumstances etc. So it was in the case of…

  • A Day Where Nothing Has Gone Right

    Every day need not be good As we all know There is no rose without a thorn So, if you want good days You have to take in the bad days as well However, today is an exception That has proved the rule So far, nothing has gone right Everything I have touched Has turned…

  • How Low Can You Sink?

    Poem dedicated to the owners of the organisation where my best friend worked till yesterday; they treated her like a slave and didn’t pay her the salary for most of the time that she worked. They even made her exit painful and denied her the full and final settlement. Here’s the content: How low can…